ABSTRACT
Most significant growth in the author's life has been the direct result of errors, mistakes, accidents, faulty assumptions and wrong moves. The author have generally learned more from her mistakes and she so-called failures than any successes or instances of "being right". The author ventures to propose that this equation is also true in the world at large. Error is a powerful animating ingredient in political, scientific and historical evolution as well as in art and mythology. Error is a necessity. There are many reasons that we get things as wrong as often as we do. Failures of perception, the cause of most error, are far more common in our daily lives than we like to think. We make errors because of inattention, because of poor preparation and because of haste. Error is a problem that demands adjustment. The author has learned through her own mistakes that the only way to safeguard against error is to embrace it.
